Hip replacement waiting time at Sutherland Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for hip replacement — published by the source as “Total hip replacement” — at this public hospital in the Caringbah area of New South Wales, with the nearest alternatives that published a figure.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026

Median wait: 181 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 157 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 14.0%2024–25 · released 28 May 2026

Half the people who had this surgery here waited less than the median, and half waited longer. Of the 123 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 75 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 227 days in 2011–12 to 181 days in 2024–25 — down 20% — while the national median rose from 116 days to 130 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Canterbury Hospital, about 13 km away, at 165 days. Here, 14.0% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 13.0%.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Total hip replacement, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Sutherland Hospital	181 days	14.0%	157 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	265 days	20.9%	4162 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	130 days	13.0%	12180 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 130 days marks the national median.

Canterbury HospitalNSW · about 13 km away165 days
Bankstown Lidcombe HospitalNSW · about 14 km away347 days
Prince of Wales HospitalNSW · about 17 km away144 days
Royal Prince Alfred HospitalNSW · about 18 km away26 days
Royal Prince Alfred Institute of Rheumatology & OrthopaedicsNSW · about 18 km away57 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst]NSW · about 20 km away62 days
Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 22 km away97 days
Royal North Shore HospitalNSW · about 25 km away215 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Total hip replacement, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Sutherland Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	227	193	116
2012–13	255	196	116
2013–14	238	191	106
2014–15	252	206	109
2015–16	227	212	114
2016–17	260	217	110
2017–18	254	212	119
2018–19	210	220	119
2019–20	216	202	120
2020–21	171	271	179
2021–22	111	231	153
2022–23	91	244	175
2023–24	129	225	135
2024–25	181	265	130

Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.

All surgery at Sutherland Hospital · Hip replacement across Australia · Hip replacement in New South Wales